Associate Director of Communications, College of Arts and Sciences - University of Buffalo : Job Details

Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Position Title Associate Director of Communications, College of Arts and Sciences Classification Title Associate Director of Community Relations Department College of Arts and Sciences Posting Number P240423 Posting Link Employer State Position Type Professional Appointment Term Term Salary Grade SL4

Posting Detail Information

Position Summary

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo is seeking an Associate Director of Communications. This is a full-time staff position responsible serving as the College's email marketing and social media lead, generating content, managing communication channels, and managing communications projects that advance the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Associate Director of Communications works with Dean's office colleagues and across the College's departments, programs, centers and institutes to create compelling content to advance the mission and priorities of the College of Arts and Sciences. The position requires excellent communication skills, strong project management skills, the ability to collaborate on projects as well as work independently, multi-task and thrive in a deadline-driven, fast-paced, team environment.

Duties are, but not limited to:

* Serving as social media lead to develop and implement social media strategy, generate campaigns and content that aligns with the brand identity and goals. Provide guidance to College level accounts, develop campaigns to grow audience, create ads, track metrics and insights.

* Developing content and strategies for disseminating multi-channel media content, and follow-through with campaign tactics.

* Serving as the College's email marketing lead and managing the email marketing products the College utilizes to deliver content to various audiences.

* Managing the audiences and segments, building and curating audiences, data extensions and providing advanced data filtering.

* Generating content and plans for the College of Arts and Sciences social media channels, websites and various projects. Providing training for users as needed.

* Conducting research on best practices in higher education for email marketing and social media, and emerging technologies.

The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest interdisciplinary academic unit at the University at Buffalo. With 30 departments, 16 academic programs and 23 centers and institutes in the arts and humanities, natural sciences and mathematics and the social sciences, the College offers more academic options than any other unit on campus.

Outstanding Benefits Package

Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about our benefit packages.

About The University at Buffalo

The University at Buffalo (UB) #ubuffalo is one of America's leading public research universities and a flagship of the State University of New York system, recognized for our excellence and our impact. UB is a premier, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence. Our research, creative activity and people positively impact the world. Like the city we call home, UB is distinguished by a culture of resilient optimism, resourceful thinking and pragmatic dreaming that enables us to reach others every day. Visit our website to learn more about the University at Buffalo.

University at Buffalo is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree required in English, Communication, Marketing, or related field. A degree outside of these areas but with relevant work experience will be considered.

* 3 years of professional experience as a content creator.

* A demonstrated ability in content planning, writing, editing including the ability to adapt tone and style to different media channels and for different audiences.

* Demonstrated aptitude with email and social media technologies and software.

* Excellent oral, written, interpersonal and presentation skills required.

* Excellent customer service and project management skills.

* Excellent collaborator, and ability to both take direction and follow through in a timely manner.

* Proficiency in MS Office, Social Media platforms, Email marketing software (Mailchimp and SalesForce/Marketing Cloud).

Preferred Qualifications

* Master's degree with a minimum of 3 years' experience in related field.

* 3-5 years of professional experience or higher education experience as an email marketing and/or social media content creator.

* Proficiency in Adobe Suite.

Physical Demands Salary Range $62,600 - $65,000 Additional Salary Information The salary range reflects our good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible compensation at the time of posting, the role and associated responsibilities, and the experience, education, and training of the selected candidate. Type Full-Time Campus North Campus Posting Alerts Special Instructions Summary

* Please submit 2 examples of communications projects you planned and executed. Please include with your submissions: A brief overview of the project, your role and any metrics or outcomes.

* All application materials should be submitted via UB Jobs. Application materials submitted directly to the posting contact will not be acknowledged and cannot be considered.

Additional Information

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at (518) ###-#### or via email at [email protected].

Is a background check required for this posting? Yes Background Check Notification For non-internal applicants: a selected candidate will have to complete and pass a background check prior to appointment.

Contact Information

Contact's Name Nicole Hayden Contact's Pronouns she/her/hers Contact's Title HR Specialist Contact's Email [email protected] Contact's Phone 716-###-####

Posting Dates

Posted 12/06/2024 Deadline for Internal Applicants 12/20/2024 Deadline for External Applicants 01/04/2025 Date to be filled 01/30/2025

References

Number of References Required 3 Reference Cutoff Date Instructions to Applicant